Scraper



(No Model) J. T. BOYD.

SORAPERf No. 333,990. PatentedJan. 12,1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

JAMES T. BOYD, OF COOPER, MISSISSIPPI.

SCRAPER. I

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,990, dated January12, 1886. Application filed September 28, 1885. Serial No. 178,442. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES T. BOYD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cooper, in the county of Monroe and State of Mississippi,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Scrapers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to scrapers used in the cultivation of cotton, butis adapted to the cultivation of corn, peas, potatoes, or any crop thatis cultivated with the plow; and the object of my invention is, first,to provide a scraper which shall be used in combination with any plow,and, secondly, which shall effeet, as will be hereinafter morespecifically shown, a material saving of labor in the cultivation ofcotton, and which will produce the results of greater nicety anduniformity in the condition of the area of land cultivated. I

attain these results by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 represents my adjustable scraper inoperation in combination with an ordinary turning-plow, the scraperhaving been previously adjusted at a proper angle with the groundsurface to be plowed. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the beam of plow,showing mortise for insertion of metal standard,

0 and giving isolated view of the standard with scraper attached in theslot of same.

Similar letters refer to similar parts through the several views.

A, B, G, and A constitute, respectively,

5 the stock, the beam, the handles, and the shovel of plow used incombination with scraper. The scraper D having been rigidly attached inthe slot d of the metal standard E by means of the screw-bolt e, theadjustable prong e of the standard E is permanently fixed in the mortiseb of the plow-beam B, and is rigidly fixed in the same by means of thewedge f and by engaging with the metal bracelet g at notch h.

4 5 The method of adjusting the scraper D with reference to the groundsurface and the plowshovel A consists of moving the wedge f and theadjustable prong e of standard E up or down in the mortise b of theplow-beam B, or

in properly adjusting the nut e on the bolt e, which rests in the slot dof metal standard E.

My combination adjustable scraper being in operation, as shown in Fig. 1of drawings, it is my design that it shall run on both sides of the rowcontaining the plants. The scraper 5 5 A D removes the dirt from theplants, and, being, by reason of its conformation and shape, adaptableto the diversified surface of the ground, combines the advantages of asurface and a hilling scraper. It clears away from the 50 hill, as wellas from the level surface, grass and all foreign substances, and isfollowed by the plow-shovel A ,which raps up the middle and throws thedirt thus cleared to the plant.

I am aware that prior to my invention cotton-scrapers have been madehaving severally edges which strike the ground at right angles from thesurface broken by the plow to which they are attached, and which meetwith unnecessary resistance from the ground surface by the rectangularshape of their edges, and that patents were granted, respectively, to T.H. Trautham, April 4, 1871, No. 113,367, and to I. R. Newton, October10, 1876, No. 183,199, for adjustable cotton- 5 T scrapers, and thatpatent was granted to T. J. Lee, November 30, 1875, No. 170,632, for adevice containing in two different sections a surface and a hillingscraper. I therefore do not claim any ofthe several features of saidinventions; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

-1. A cotton-scraper having the curved point 01, terminating at itsforward extremity in a plunging point, d extending below the plane ofthe lower edge of a mold-board, d having a broad cuttingedge next to theground, and with a flanged upper part describing a curve upon the offside of plow, in combination with an adjustable notched standard securedthereto and adapted to be secured to the beam in front of aplow orshovel, as set forth.

2. In an adjustable cotton-scraper, the com- I bination of the curvedpoint d, the plunging point ti and the mold-board (1 all substantiallyas shown, and for the purposes specified.

JAMES T. BOYD. WVitnesses:

D. W. HOUSTON, B. H. GILLEsrIE.

